George Humbert
Date of birth: 1880-07-29
Place of birth: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: George Humbart, Umberto Gianni
Biography
George Humbert (born Umberto Gianni; July 29, 1880 – May 8, 1963) was an Italian-born American actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1918 and the 1950s. He emigrated to the United States as a steerage passenger on board the Italian steamer Sannio, which sailed from Genoa, Italy and arrived at the Port of New York in June 1907; he was examined by the U.S. immigration service on Ellis Island and allowed to enter the United States legally. He became a United States citizen in 1933.
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Name the Woman
1934-07-25
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, b
Dead End
1937-08-27
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin
Tish
1942-09-17
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a
Moon Over Miami
1941-07-04
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a
Return of the Terror
1934-07-07
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been co
Fashions of 1934
1934-02-14
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Sna
Full Confession
1939-09-08
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to th
The Woman and the Law
1918-03-17
Jack La Salle marries South American heiress Blanquetta Del Castillo, and the two settle into a happ
Kid Galahad
1937-05-29
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid
Daughters Courageous
1939-06-23
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane,
Music in My Heart
1940-01-04
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
Lucky Jordan
1942-11-16
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to
Arrowsmith
1931-12-07
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of
Fisherman's Wharf
1939-02-03
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in
In Caliente
1935-05-25
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Flirting with Fate
1938-12-02
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Laughing at Life
1933-07-12
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities a
Swing It, Sailor!
1938-02-04
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
City Streets
1938-07-01
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle"
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934-07-12
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dr
The Gay Deception
1935-09-13
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City,
The Caillaux Case
1918-09-15
Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGA
Bullin' the Bullsheviki
1919-11-01
As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This
Fugitive Road
1934-08-22
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes i
Trouble in Paradise
1932-10-30
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company
Elinor Norton
1934-11-02
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wi
Expensive Husbands
1937-11-27
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her
History Is Made at Night
1937-03-05
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her
The Rose Tattoo
1955-12-12
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on h
Registered Nurse
1934-04-06
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surg
You Can't Have Everything
1937-08-02
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of st
Love and Hisses
1937-12-21
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch
Blondie
1938-11-30
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion i
Hi, Nellie!
1934-01-20
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield wit
Desirable
1934-09-08
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Gentlemen Are Born
1934-11-17
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the
Mama Steps Out
1937-02-05
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Fur
The Sap from Syracuse
1930-07-26
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a pro
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939-01-20
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon a
Border Cafe
1937-06-04
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his fathe
Chicken Wagon Family
1939-08-10
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam
Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join
The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally
Gilda
1946-04-25
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Yukon Flight
1940-01-02
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James
Port of Seven Seas
1938-07-01
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius.
The Great O'Malley
1937-02-13
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a
Winterset
1936-12-03
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly execu
Manhandled
1949-07-21
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a priva
Boys of the City
1940-07-15
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's sug
Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emer
No Time to Marry
1938-02-05
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficu
Sea Spoilers
1936-09-30
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the cap
I Cover the Waterfront
1933-05-19
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Boss of Bullion City
1940-03-01
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
Love Is News
1937-02-26
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th
A Girl with Ideas
1937-11-01
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
I Sell Anything
1934-10-20
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
The Payoff
1935-01-09
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked spo
City for Conquest
1940-09-21
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug
Hired Wife
1940-09-13
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his
East of the River
1940-11-09
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co
Torrid Zone
1940-05-18
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Down Argentine Way
1940-10-11
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine h
Topper
1937-07-16
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935-04-13
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China.
A Guy Could Change
1946-01-27
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Doctor Bull
1933-09-22
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portr
Hearts of Humanity
1932-08-31
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young
The Mayor of Hell
1933-06-24
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson.
Ladies of the Jury
1932-02-02
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi
Heidi
1937-10-15
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her re
Street Scene
1931-09-05
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives
Chained
1934-08-31
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to div
The Public Pays
1936-10-10
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro
Banjo on My Knee
1936-12-11
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New O
Truck Busters
1943-01-28
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked truckin
Reckless Age
1944-08-01
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together
The Keyhole
1933-03-25
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
It Ain't Hay
1943-02-22
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feedin
The California Trail
1933-03-24
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Command
Island in the Sky
1938-04-01
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attor
Fiesta
1941-11-28
Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the
Trouble at Midnight
1937-10-16
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharg
Night Key
1937-04-18
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get hi
Redhead
1934-10-31
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her ne
Pepper
1936-08-08
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take he
The Girl from Avenue A
1940-08-09
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material
The Locket
1946-12-20
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Flying with Music
1942-05-22
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the cl
The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Professional Soldier
1935-12-27
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and th
The Gilded Lily
1935-01-25
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her bes
When Tomorrow Comes
1939-08-11
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i
The Toast of New Orleans
1950-08-24
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman c
The Strawberry Blonde
1941-02-21
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulat
Law of the Timber
1941-12-19
PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist J